Jason Carr

FYI all, as far as I know, we haven't had any significant issues be reported for beta 11. I may put out a quick beta today with some minor things, but the plan is to release the official version tomorrow.

I'm not fully following you here. We're on 9.6, so do you mean you downgraded to 9.0? If you downgraded that far, that might make sense as to data files not working. It looks like MagicEngine is not running full-screen. The startup screens won't work under most circumstances when the emulator does not launch fullscreen. I haven't tested that emulator either, so you may just have to experiment with the options. But if it worked before, I'm guessing that somehow the emulator is just no longer running in fullscreen. The first troubleshooting step should always be to try the emulator without LaunchBox. Responded in the thread.

Thanks Claudio, I have that fixed for the next beta, and the new translation package integrated.

The font settings (including size) are configurable in the LaunchBox options, so that is one thing to note. However, lots of themes have overridden this with custom fonts; I don't think there's anything preventing you from doing that. Maybe you can take a look at some of the other LaunchBox themes for an example? If you're still stuck, post some code here that isn't working and hopefully we can help.

This would certainly be possible, yes; feel free to put in a request.

What are the exact error messages?

Beta 11 is out now with the following: Fixed a potential threading error with the accelerated downloads Background updates now use accelerated downloads as well Themes manager now formats the version number correctly (1.0 instead of just 1) Themes manager no longer displays "Currently Installed Version: Unknown" if the theme is not installed Themes manager now prevents selections when transitioning from one theme to another in the list (was a minor usability issue) Themes manager now selects the new theme after install, update, and repair Fixed an error attempting to launch games in Big Box when there are no games in the list Fixed Drodrick's aforemented controller filters error Translation updates I think at this point, we're very close to a release, so I plan to put out the 9.6 release within the next couple of days. Any testing would be very much appreciated. Unfortunately the threading error I found with the accelerated downloads could mean that folks who downloaded beta 10 may run into an error while downloading beta 11 (it's not likely but it is possible). If that happens, the easiest thing to do to resolve it would be to temporarily turn on background updates, and just let it update in the background instead. That issue should already be fixed for this release.

I think I have this error fixed for beta 11; thanks for the report.

Can you explain what you mean by "partly resolved"? If you have a way of taking screenshots of what you mean, that would be helpful here.

It's currently set up to use whatever images are uploaded by the theme creator. There are a few relic PNGs that I put in there early on that I need to replace with smaller JPEGs. The smaller JPEGs are only a couple hundred kilobytes, so it shouldn't really be an issue going forward. Sadly the actual error is getting cut off in the screenshot here, so I can't really tell what the error is. Yes, this is planned for a later release. However, the LaunchBox theme manager/downloader will only work with LaunchBox and Startup themes. I don't plan to make a LaunchBox-based themes manager that controls Big Box themes.

Ah, I see. That makes sense. Yeah, if that works, then go for it. That also sounds like an awesome plugin idea.

@SsjCosty Generally, we reduce the VLC folder down to only what is needed to try and reduce download size, as VLC is very large. LaunchBox and Big Box can't play YouTube videos by default anyways, or am I missing something? What are you trying to do that needs YouTube support?

Thank you all; I have all the translations in for the next beta (most likely it'll be out some time tomorrow). I've also added @alexposad to the About screen.

All you have to do is use one of the games views that does not spin.

If carts are spinning, basically it just means you're on the wrong view for that platform. You can bind a key to "switch view" in Big Box and switch to one of the other views that do not spin.

@BenGmanUk Sorry to hear about the trouble. We'll need some more details in order to help: What are your system specs? What version of Windows are you running? What version of LaunchBox/Big Box are you running? Do other themes work correctly? What themes have you tried? What is the resolution of your monitor?

That might be the best we can do, at least for this release. The problem is that we don't *exactly* know when the game starts, due to the nature of the startup screen solution with exclusive fullscreen support. It might be best for startup screen videos not to use audio anyways since the video can get cut off at any point once the game is loaded, and game startup times aren't exactly perfectly consistent between launches.

Beta 10 is out now with the following: Hopeful fix for videos in game startup themes not stopping audio when games start Fixed an issue with horizontal wheels that I introduced in beta 9 (they were not scrolling properly) Added a download acceleration-type-system for updates and theme downloads in the themes manager; got tired of crappy connections (*cough* Comcast) causing issues Per the download accelerator stuff, it might seriously help update speeds, but you won't notice until the *next* update, and currently it's not yet implemented for background downloads. However, you can test the new system by downloading themes in Big Box, as those downloads all use the new download acceleration. Basically, what it does is divide up the downloads into a million different chunks, and instead of downloading the file all in one go, it downloads bits and pieces and retries up to 100 times if any of the pieces fail. It also threads the downloads so that multiple parts of the file are being downloaded at the same time. Hopefully it all works.

Alright, I think I have it fixed for the next beta. It's actually a way more complicated issue to solve than you would think, as it's not always cut and dry knowing when the game is loaded. We'll see how beta 10 fares. Should be out shortly.

Thank you all; I have all three translations updated for the next beta, which should be out shortly.

Where are you getting that @lessthanzero33? On startup? Shutdown? LaunchBox or Big Box?

@y2guru Thanks for the heads-up. I have that fixed for the next beta, which should be out shortly.

Wow, that's strange; I haven't seen that. What is your video playback engine set to in Big Box?

FYI all, I'm looking at Monday or Tuesday of next week (the 25th and 26th of March) for releasing LaunchBox and Big Box 9.6 with the themes manager. So if you're looking to get your themes up there, the best timeframe would be before the 25th.

Beta 9 is out now as well with just some minor translation updates.